When they're in short supply can we name them Unobtranium?
Amazon launches Trainium3
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Re: Amazon launches Trainium3
#72These product might be great, but seriously, who's choosing those names? Trainium, Inferentia? It's like let's just take the words from what they do, and put a little Latin twist on them? I know naming things is one of the great problems in computer science, but really they could come up with something a little better.
Re: Amazon launches Trainium3
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Agree, Google put a ton of work into making TPUs usable with the ecosystem. Given Amazon’s track record I can’t imagine they would ever do that.
There might be enough market pressure right now to make them think about it, but the stock price went up enough from just announcing it so whatever
Amazon has no interest in making their platform interoperable.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO AWS once you get off the core services is full of beta services. S3, Dynamo, Lambda, ECS, etc are all solid. But there are a lot of services they have that have some big rough patches.
>But there are a lot of services they have that have some big rough patches. Enlight us...
Personally, EMR has never shaken off the "scrappy" feeling (sometimes it feels OK if you're using Spark), and it feels even more neglected recently as they seem to want you on AWS Glue or Athena. LakeFormation is... a thing that I'm sure is good in theory if you're using only managed services, but in practice is like taking a quick jaunt on the Event Horizon.
Glue Catalog has some annoying assumptions baked in.
Frankly the entire analytics space on AWS feels like a huge mess of competing teams and products instead of a uniform vision.
Re: Amazon launches Trainium3
#75I've had to repeatedly tell our AWS account reps that we're not even a little interested in the Trainium or Inferentia instances unless they have a provably reliable track record of working with the standard libraries we have to use like Transformers and PyTorch. I know they claim they work, but that's only on their happy path with their very specific AMI's and the nightmare that is the neuron SDK. You try to do any…